Secretary of the Treasury in the Truman Administration, 1946-53. Other Federal positions once held include Executive Vice-President and Director, Defense Plant Corporation, 1940-43; Assistant to the Director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1940-44; Federal Loan Administrator, 1945; Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945-46. Secretary Snyder was a longtime close friend of Harry S. Truman beginning with their service in the U.S. Army Reserves after World War I.
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Aleman, Miguel, and Marshall plan, views on, 1183-1186
Anderson, Clinton P., 805-811, 1181
Anti-ballistic missile system, 1239-1241
Appointments Secretary to the President, role of, 712-714
Army Reserves, U.S., Harry S. Truman in, 973-974
Arnow, Phil, 439
Arvey, Jake, 1036
Asia, Marshall plan proposed for, 1203
Assassination attempt on President Truman, 1331-1335
Atomic bomb:
Soviet Union's intervention in war against Japan, and role of, 1616-1618
Truman's decision to use, 538, 542-544, 1608-1616
Balance of payments, U.S., 1710-1711
Balmacido, Carnelio, 1372
Bank "holiday" of 1933, 24-27
Bankers, political views of, 1172-1175
Barkley, Alben:
Democratic National Convention of 1948, role in, 1019-1030
Democratic National Convention of 1952, role in, 1510
as Vice-President of the United States, 665, 667-668
Vice-Presidential nomination of, 656-660, 661-664
Blandsford, John, 232
Blanton, C. L., Sr., 131
Bowles, Chester, 232, 234-236, 325-326, 411, 413, 1049-1050, 1923-1926
Brannan, Charles, 811-814
Bremen, Germany, as a strategic target in World War II, 478-479
British loan, in 1946, 975-982, 988-1001
British pound, devaluation of, 1003-1005, 1008-1010, 1014
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, assistance in Truman's Senatorial campaign of 1940, 53-55
Brownell, Herbert, prosecution of "scandals" in Truman administration, 919-920
Bruce, David K.E., 1022
Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, 1888-1889
Budget balances, U.S. Treasury, 1137, 1678-1679, 1714-1716, 1741, 1780- 1782, 1834
Bulkley, John, 438
Bunn, Edward B., 649
Bureau of Customs, uniform appraisal system adopted for, 603-606
Bureau of Internal Revenue, 850-904, 1861-1873
as compared to other Presidents, 847-848
foreign aid, views on, 1176-1183
liberals and conservatives, 561-565
luncheons, without the presence of the President, 738-743, 846-847
note-taking, absence of, 844, 845, 846
Calhoun, David R., 459
Capital gains taxation, 1850-1851
Caruthersville, Missouri, trip by President Truman in 1945, 652-655
Case bill (concerning labor-management relations), 569-572
Caudle, Lamar, 891, 920-921
Chapman, Oscar, 801, 803-804
Chautauqua, Alben Barkley's involvement in, 661-662
Chief Frank John, portrait of, 633-634
Chiles, Henry Clay, 131
China, aid to, 1208-1210, 1233-1238
China, Peoples Republic of, 1444-1446
China, U.S. policy toward, 1451
Churchill, Winston, visit to White House, January 1953, 271
Civil rights, Southern bankers, views of, 1260-1261
Civil rights, in the Truman administration, 1259-1263, 1271-1274
Clark, Bennett, 75-77
Clark, Tom, as U.S. Attorney General, 774-775
Clark, Tom, foreign aid, role in, 1179
Clark, Vernon L., 636, 1653
Clayton, William L. (Will), 1107-1111
Clifford, Clark, 927-943, 946-949
and Truman, Harry S., relationship with, 933-937, 941-943
Coal industry, strike in 1946, 425
Coast Guard, U.S., reorganization of, 606-607, 1874-1882
Cologne, Germany, as a strategic target in World War II, 481-482
Committee for European Economic Cooperation (CEEC), 1126-1128
Communism, as issue in campaign of 1948, 1068-1069
Community property issue, 1908-1909
Congressional liaison, 1488-1493
Connally, Tom, and the Truman Committee, 81
Connelly, Matthew, prosecution of, 916-917, 918, 949-955
Cook, Evelyn (Mrs. John W. Snyder), 253
Coombs, Philip H., 438
Counterpart funds, 1137, 1144, 1155
Cowen, Myron M., 1360-1361, 1384, 1393
Credit of the U.S. Government, maintenance of, 1774-1777, 1795-1796
Cripps, Stafford, 982, 983, 984
Currency exchange rates, 1000-1002
Doughton, Robert L., 1908-1909
Douglas, Lewis William, 1022
Douglas, William O., as possible nominee for Vice-Presidency on Democratic ticket in 1948, 660-661
Dunlap, John, 888, 896-897
Dusseldorf, Germany, as a strategic target in World War II, 480-481
E
Eady, Wilfred, 994, 995-997
Early, Stephen, 957
Eaton, Charles A., 1153
Eccles, George, 1651
Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, 1142-1154
Economic Cooperation Administration, created, 1143
Eightieth Congress, as issue in 1948 campaign, 1257-1258
Eisenhower, Dwight D.:
and MacArthur, Douglas, 1426-1427
as potential Democratic candidate for Presidency in 1948, 1035-1037, 1505-1506
as Republican candidate for Presidency in 1952, 1037-1039, 1513-1514
Snyder, John W., acquaintance with, 469-471, 1040
Election, Senatorial, of 1940, 45-75, 127-134
Election campaign of 1944, Harry S. Truman's role in, 135-141, 146-150
Election campaign, Congressional, of 1946, 432-436
Elsey, George, 939
"Empire building" in the executive department of Government, 708-710
Employment Act of 1946, 555
Essen, Germany, as a strategic target in World War II, 480-481
Europe, reconstruction of, plans for, 507-511
Evans, Tom, 127, 128, 131
Excess profits tax, 1684, 1701-1703, 1846-1849, 1898-1907
Exchange rates, 1814-1817, 1821-1824
Export-Import Bank, 1131-1133, 1144
F
Fairless Committee, 1221-1222
Farrington, John, 130
Federal-state coordination, on taxation, 1854-1857
Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S., and U.S. Secret Service, 783-785
Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 410
Feidler, Ernest R., 630, 1491
Finance, international, 1765-1771, 1800-1829, 1858-1859
Fisher, Charles, 646
Fleming, Robert V., 642
Foley, Edward, 1491
Foley, Raymond M., and housing policy, 407-410
Ford, Henry, 218
Foreign aid, Asia, aid to, 1204
Foreign aid, to Europe, 1945-1952, 1219-1222
Foreign aid, U.S., postwar, 1083-1112
Foreign economic policy, taxation, 1858-1859
Formosa, defense of, 1450-1453
Forrestal, James 563, 756-762
atomic bomb, research on, 521-522
currency reform, 1813
postwar division of, 517
postwar reconstruction of, 517-520, 525-527
Goodman, in 1940 campaign, 133, 134
Giannini, A. P., and Mario, 158-161, 1650, 1651
Government and Relief in Occupied Areas (GARIOA), 1085-1086
Grain bin controversy, in 1948, 809--811
Granthan, Alexander, 1386-1387
Guam, in 1949, 1394-1395
Guarderno, Miguel, 1372
Graves, Phil, 130
Great Britain, American financial aid to, 975-1000
